Sam gave a gut feeling on Caesar Ruiz

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This morning. Maybe the Fab Five these lineman have been talking about is closer to reality than we might think.  smiley

 

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Maddogrdt

October 17th, 2016 at 8:57 AM ^

I'd love to see us get a "Fab Five" type offensive line recruiting pull, but my gut worries that 2 out of those 5 actually live up to the hype...

Call me a pessimist (or greedy), but I'd rather see a "Fab 8" when it comes to O-Line recruiting

 

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Bronco Joe

October 17th, 2016 at 9:33 AM ^

I remember reading something at one point (RichRod years?) that a team should have around 18-20 OL on scholarship.

I have often thought that each recruiting class should have very close to a full team - 5 OL, 1 QB, etc. We have seen when this rule of thumb was ignored (like no QB the year before Morris) and the issues with depth that develop in subsequent years.

Hopefully we can get "caught up" and even out the positions with the classes we're seeing now. News on Ruiz is great! Hoping in 2-3 years he's playing at Molk levels...



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Mr Miggle

October 17th, 2016 at 12:36 PM ^

I think that's pretty standard. I've never heard of anyone aiming for around 20.  Obviously we know RR didn't do that here, even though he's known for overweightig his rosters on offense.

The numbers don't give that much room. There are essentially 41 scholarships on offense. So you can't go four deep everywhere. OL don't rotate, they play multiple positions, (our 2 deep is only 7-8 players) and don't have extra jobs on special teams.

If you look at the other position groups on offense, where do you cut scholarships? You want 4-5 QBs at all times. We're rotating 4 RBs, carrying 7 and looking to add another. We don't need 4 FBs, but if you add RB and FB  together, we want at least 8. If you have 20 OL, that only leaves room for a total of 7-9 TE and WR.

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Maddogrdt

October 17th, 2016 at 11:01 AM ^

but not if you  lose 2-3 of the overrated/non-performers due to "medical issues" every year, then you'd have a Bama style Oline with 3-4 good/great lineman per class.

Also, I meant 8 this year not so much 8 every year...but hey recruit them all and cut the ones that don't produce works for SEC

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michgoblue

October 17th, 2016 at 9:07 AM ^

You're right. We should definitely tell all of these 4-5* blue chip linemen to look elsewhere and only take awesome, undiscovered diamond-in-the-rough walk on linemen because one five-star kid didn't live up to his hype due to massive coaching incompetence and then coaching change.

(also, Kalis is having a really good year)

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Indonacious

October 17th, 2016 at 9:08 AM ^

Have the current olineman that are committed or prospects like slaton commented on the fab 5 and that they aren't in it? I feel like they could have just called it the wall and included everyone, but that's just my opinion.



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jerseyblue

October 17th, 2016 at 9:28 AM ^

So we're chasing these fab 5 O lineman and we already have 6 committed. We'll 4 definite OL and 2 guys (Paea,Hudson) who can play DL but are projected to potentially play OL. So can we take a potential OL haul of 11?

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reddogrjw

October 17th, 2016 at 9:47 AM ^

OL and DL

 

8+ OL

5+ DL

3-4 WR

4 LB

4-5 DB's

1 QB

3-4 RB

makes for 28-31 for the class

maybe a FB too

re-loads the defense with young talent

same for the OL

RB, WR can develop since we have good depth that has played there

TE - we have 5 guys in their first year of eligibility so other than hitting a HR with Falo we don't need to reach for someone there

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Showboat804

October 17th, 2016 at 9:48 AM ^

Well my boy is a die hard Miami fan and he said the canes are confident enough that their head insider said that they will land slaton and flip Herbert. Content is free on caneinsight



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